Machine for shocking grain



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

STUART F. HAMMER, OF MACOMB, ILLINOIS.

MACHINE FOR SHOCKING GRAIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,198-*dated May 31, 1881.

' Application filed March 10, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom tt may concem:

Be it known that I, STUART F. HAMMER, of Maeomb, in the county of McDonough and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Machine for Shocking Grain, of which the following is a specification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a detached portion of the mechanism not cleariy shown in Fig. 1.

The nature and object of this invention is to coustruct a suitable machine for shocking grain, Which can be attached to a self-binding reaper or drawn along its side by other means; and its novelty consists in an adjustable platform placed between'suitable runners or wheels with a lever-frame and mechanism for raisin'g eranks pass through the runners, and the pins 'n a pass through a bar at each side of the fame. The rods 0 0 are attached to the elbowcranks, as shown, to give concert of action. The lever-frame J is pivoted to the inside of the runners at a c. The projecting arms t t are slotted at their .outer ends to receive the pins n n.

The operation is as follows: The machine,

as shown in Fig. 1, is attached to a self-binding reaper, or horses hitched to the tongue G and drawn along the side of the reaper, so that the sheaves, as they come from the reaper, will fall on the inolined side B. The operator takes his place on the platform D, turns the fender b to its shown position, and as the sheaves come from the reaper he sets them up against the fender b on the rear end of the platform, and When a sufficient number of the sheaves have been set together to form a Shock the operator then turns the fender b around out of the Way, then roaches forward and takes hold of the lever-frame J, which has been held firm by suitable mechanism, (notshown,) and draws the lever-frame rearward until the platforln D strikes the ground, which is done in an instant, and in so doing the stubbles pass up between the opening in the platform and catch into the butts of the sheaves in the shock and hold it while the platform is drawn out from under it, leaving the shock setting up on the ground in good condition. The lever-frame is then thrown forward, raising up the platform to its shown position, and the fender is again turned toits shown position and another shock commenced, as before.

Having thus fully desoribed m y invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The adjustable platform D, lever-frame J, elbow-cranks a a a a, and rods 0 0, all operating jointly togethersubstantially as shown and described, for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination with the adjustable platform D, lever-frame J, elbow-cranks a a a a, and the iuclined side B, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

S. F. HAMMEB.

Witnesses GEo. W. PRIOE, T. J. Perea. 

